Reuters at 11:12 am EST:
Breaking News: EU's Energy Commissioner says the situation at the Japanese reactor is "effectively out of control"
Reuters at 11:13 am EST:
EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger: There could be catastrophic events within the coming hours
When reactor #3 blast the other day there were large part appeared to be thrown into the
air Much of witch seemed to tumble back to the ground other then smoke and dust like brown
that was blasted to Kingdom come.
Fuel rods last about 6 years while they are being used for fuel, at the end of their life
cycle they are still hot and need to be covered in water for another 5 to 10 years until
they are cool enough to be managed to be move and increased into seals concrete containers.
Have these sites at the reactors ever move these spent rods and encased them ?
How many used fuel rods were in the pools above the reactors on site still cooling in
pools ?
Finding out how old the site is and has been producing power may give us a clue to the
number of spent rods may be at the plant total but if they have never been moved away from
this plant, we may be able to understand that the number of rods that are producing
radiation in whole and really get to the true gravity of the anomaly that is facing the
earth and it's inhabitants.
Let say a 40 year old reactor plant that has 6 reactors, after 40 years of running there
would have been 6 used ones at the plant in cooling tanks at the end of 5 years with new
ones placed into the reactors, but after 12 years there would be 12 used sitting in
cooling tanks and on premises if never moved from plant or encased. 18 years would be 18
cooling and 6 active in reactors. Say a 40 year old plant could have possibly 36 or more
spent laying in cooling pools or on promises if never moved. Plus the 6 in the reactors.
So this may well be worse then any one could have imagined.